For a lot of people, winter means ski season. The skis come out and and bikes are stored in a cold garage waiting for it to be summer again. We, however, think it’s a bit sad that our faithful companions are put aside just because the trails are covered in snow. We love winter laps and we love snowy sessions on home trails. Basically, we love mountain biking! Here’s Nico Vink, Vincent Tupin, Vincent Pasquier and Gaëtan Rey doing what they enjoy most after a fresh snowfall.
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The “royal league” of motorbike sports met the supreme discipline of winter sports. The legendary Hahnenkamm race, the toughest contest in skiing’s world cup, is to take place this weekend. Triple world champion Marc Márquez became the first man to take on a snowy Alpine mountain summit on a MotoGP bike! It was just a few hundred metres above this extreme section, on the “Ehrenbachhöhe” on the Hahnenkamm mountain, where Marc Márquez pulled off his thrilling MotoGP display before the big ski race. There is no greater expert when it comes to speeding around the tarmac of a racing circuit, of course, and when it came to riding on the snow, the 23-year-old superstar had two real pros by his side. Austrian ice speedway legend Franky Zorn, no less, fitted the racing bike with some proper spikes. By becoming the first MotoGP driver to take a racing bike over the summit of a mountain in the Alps, Marc Márquez followed in the tracks of Max Verstappen, who put on the first Formula 1 show run in the Alps in the same spot last year.
So last season was a big year for the King of the Air, some big jumps and even bigger crashes. As this event continues to push the limits of the riders involved it pretty interesting to hear what they have to say on what it takes to pull these tricks. Here I catch up with To Hebert, Aaron Hadlow and Lasse Walker on their thoughts on how gnarly it really is.